hope - Story 63439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer, bright and bold, announced the opening of a new bakery. The name, the logo, even the menu items, were suspiciously familiar. But beneath the anger, a different feeling bloomed. It was a thrill. The "Chocolate Decadence Cake" was her creation, tweaked and perfected over countless hours.

She reached for her bag. The feeling coursed through her, tingling.

She was going to go buy some of her favorite ingredients. Then she could go home and begin again. She would start to prepare the dough.

Emotion: hope

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.59 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.12

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hope. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 hope stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hope emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hope vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	1.065
`la`	0.865
`B`	0.465
`🤩`	0.412
`H`	0.407

Suppressed:

`😞`	-0.459
`C`	-0.451
`不`	-0.449
`😣`	-0.443
`S`	-0.442